Improved windlass for tightening ships standing rigging



UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE,

JASPER G. OODMUS, OF PORT RICHMOND, NEW YORK.

EMPROVED WlNDLASS FOR TIGHTENING SHIPS STANDING RIGGING.

Port Richmond, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful 1inprovement in Means for Tightening Rigging,

ttc.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l represents my apparatus as applied to the tightening of a shroud, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of my tightening apparatus at right angles to Fig. l.

Similar marks of reference denote the same laits.

Shrouds and standing rigging of vessels have heretofore been tightened by a tackle applied some distance up the rope and acting to haul up the rope that is laced through the dead-eyes.

Itis difficult to apply this tackle, and con siderable space is required to work it, besides which the shroud that is below the point at which the upper block of the tackle is attached is not strained with the same power as that above said point, the lower part of said shroud only being acted upon by the tightening of the rope led through the deadeyes.

The nature of my said invention consists in a portable winch-barrel fitted in a frame that is suspended from the shroud or rope to be tightened, and said winch receives the rope that passes through the dead-eyes. By this apparatus one man with a handspike or lever can tighten up rigging ot' considerable size with great ease. and the said apparatus can loe easily moved from place to place and applied to any standing rope or shroud.

ln the drawings, d represents the rope, shroud, or standing rigging to be tightened. b b are the dead-eyes, connected as usual. c is the rope passed up and down through lthe dead-eyes, as usual. d is a frame with an eye, e, at the upper end, by means ot which it is to be suspended from the shroud 0r rope to be tightened. f is a winch-barrel provided with a hand-spike or lever socket, g, and pawl lf, and i is a standing pawl on d.

It will now be evident that the rope c may be hauled upon with considerable power at the same time that the strain of the frame d upon the rope a tends to draw that down, so that the standing rigging can be strained up very tightly.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Lelters Patent., is-

The frame d, suspended by the eye e from the rope or shroud to be tightened, in combination with the winch-bai rel fand a handspike or lever to turn said Winch-barrel, as and for the purposes specilied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 24th day ot' January, 1865.

J. G. CODMUS.

Witnesses:

CHAs. H. SMITH, Trios. GEO. HAROLD. 

